Gabe Zimmerman, the social worker killed in the Tucson shootings (see my story on 10th January), is collecting tributes in the press, which aside from a credit to him, demonstrates some of the values associated with social work:
National Public Radio says:
Gabe Zimmerman was known "as a conciliator with a deft touch when it came to working with difficult or angry people," Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep noted earlier. Zimmerman, who was engaged to be married, "devoted his life to social work and public service and helping people," a high school friend tells NPR.Giffords' spokesman, C.J. Karamargin, tells the Los Angeles Times that Zimmerman "put his all into his work, he put his all into his life." "Gabe was unfailingly patient with people. He presided over thousands of constituent cases," Karamargin tells the Times. "He was helping World War II vets get medals, people with Medicare benefits, veterans with benefits issues. These are the types of things day-in and day-out he did, and he was determined to just do the best he could. He worked hard, he really worked hard."
The Arizona Star says:
He offered an example of how to live a life of public service. "He would go out of his way to help people in trouble," recalled Daniel Graver, who worked with him in Giffords' office. "People would come into the congressional office, he would listen to them and give them money for a cab home. Some days during a campaign I would harass him to take a weekend off from his job to work on the campaign. He said to me that if I didn't work, people wouldn't make phone calls but if he didn't work, people didn't eat."
http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_06f98f89-343f-597f-82ba-0c9c7591eaa4.html
The headline in the Examiner, Tucson, is:
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